Learning Objectives: Transforming Resistance

  • List 4 principles of moment to moment tracking 
  • Relate 5 ways to maintain an experiential focus
  • Name 4 methods to keep patient motivation high, prevent therapist agenda and avoid a misalliance 
  • Apply 3 ways to distinguish defense from anxiety 
  • LIst 5 mechanisms of transformation
  • Examine 3 ways to improve therapist emotional capacity, focus & persistence
  • Analyze understanding defenses
  • Define syntonic vs dystonic defenses
  • List 3 defense clarification techniques
  • Choose defense relinquishing techniques
  • Categorize defenses against feeling vs connection
  • Explain systems of resistance
  • Diagram an understanding of anxiety physiology & pathways
  • Describe healthy vs unhealthy anxiety
  • Apply an understanding of dysregulation
  • Compare anxiety regulation techniques
  • Identify increasing anxiety tolerance
  • Discriminate complex feelings
  • Summarize building capacity: increasing affect tolerance
  • Role-play the role of guilt, shame & fear
  • Illustrate affect facilitation: demonstrate the ladder of emotion
  • Summarize 3 ways to work with feelings toward the therapist
  • Describe the function of portrayals
  • Create methods to enhance emotional breakthroughs & access unconscious material
  • Describe clinical decisions using a clinical map/ flow chart
  • Describe how the person of the therapist is an important variable in the therapeutic dyad
  • Distinguish features of the training process & professional development which enhance learning
  • Determine the qualities of expert therapists as implemented in sessions